NHSN
Concurrent Education Session - 60 minutes
Suparna Bagchi, DrPH, MSPH
HAI Data Validation Lead
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Norcross, Georgia
Nothing to disclose
DeAnn Richards, RN, BSN, CIC, HPHQ, CPPS
Infection Prevention Project Specialist
MetaStar, Inc.
Madison, Wisconsin
Nothing to disclose
Members from the NHSN Validation and Methods and Analytics Team will provide IPs and NHSN users with best practices and helpful tools to conduct facility-level data quality analysis on HAI data.
The session will highlight the data quality checkpoints that are strongly recommended by the NHSN team at CDC, and provide an overview of the data quality analytic efforts that are made by the group.